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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Apparently, Tennessee is Under Sharia Law Now

John Guandolo, the disgraced former FBI agent (he got canned for having sex with a witness in a case) turned hyperbole purveyor about Muslim terrorism, seems to think that Tennessee is a hotbed of Sharia law. This is also the idiot who claims that CIA Director John Brennan is a secretly Muslim double agent.

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“I have spent a lot of time in Tennessee because Tennessee is one of the most dangerous states in the union with regard to this threat, you have some very courageous state legislators who are addressing the threat but you also have some folks there in leadership positions who are not addressing it,”

And what are those “courageous state legislators” doing?

Recently, Tennessee Republican politicians were upset about a mop sink which they thought could be used for Muslim foot washing, claimed Islam isn’t a religion, backed legislation to make it a crime to practice Sharia law and tried to ban a mosque, that has been the center of lawsuits and vandalism.

John Pieret“In other words, they are going around making fools of themselves.”
Now, look, if “saving America from Sharia” is “making fools of themselves”, then I guess all us Real Patriotic Americans™ are fools. Fools for Freedom!

You’ll thank us later, when we’ve saved you from the Muslins. Also, forced you to convert to Southern Baptism. For Freedom!

The way that some people talk about Islam, you’d think that they are talking about Communism. It’s the same sort of stereotypes that they have of it, some monstrous, unified transnational political movement that is the enemy of The American Way Of Life.

“I have spent a lot of time in Tennessee because Tennessee is one of the most dangerous states in the union with regard to this threat, you have some very courageous state legislators who are addressing the threat but you also have some folks there in leadership positions who are not addressing it,”

It’s a good thing we have those legislators to protect us from the hordes of Muslims in state government, against whom the Republican party is a tiny minority fighting to preserve democracy and basic civil rights.

Recently, Tennessee Republican politicians were upset about a mop sink which they thought could be used for Muslim foot washing, claimed Islam isn’t a religion, backed legislation to make it a crime to practice Sharia law and tried to ban a mosque, that has been the center of lawsuits and vandalism.

I’m starting to wonder how long until they fix this Muslim question once and for all. Like, as in, some kind of Final Solution.